verily

And yet, verily, my soul is filled with confusion.

Thus, Penelope came into our lives, and, verily, I wanted to drown her in the bathtub.

It is a tragicomedy, a hybrid of past and present, a pastiche and an original yarn, a verily fun and achingly melancholy novel.

An article in The Muskogee Comet, a Black newspaper, from June 23, 1904, proclaimed that the Tulsa area “may verily be called the Eden of the West for the colored people.”

“We will all verily abide by the will of God.”